Etymology vs Semantics - What's the difference?
etymology | semantics |
(uncountable) The study of the historical development of languages, particularly as manifested in individual words.
(countable) An account of the origin and historical development of a word.
(linguistics) A branch of linguistics studying the meaning of words.
The study of the relationship between words and their meanings.
* 2006 , Patrick Blackburn, Johan Bos, and Kristina Striegnitz, [http://www.learnprolognow.org/lpnpage.php?pagetype=html&pageid=lpn-htmlse32 Learn Prolog Now!] , section 8.1:
The individual meanings of words, as opposed to the overall meaning of a passage.
As nouns the difference between etymology and semantics
is that etymology is the study of the historical development of languages, particularly as manifested in individual words while semantics is a branch of linguistics studying the meaning of words.etymology
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* Not to be confused with .Derived terms
* etymological * fake etymology * false etymology * folk etymology * popular etymologyHyponyms
* onomasticsReferences
* * * English words suffixed with -ologysemantics
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(wikipedia semantics) (-)- Semantics is a foundation of lexicography.
- In fact, nowadays a lot is known about the semantics of natural languages, and it is surprisingly easy to build semantic representations which partially capture the meaning of sentences or even entire discourses.
- The semantics of the terms used are debatable.
- The semantics of a single preposition is a dissertation in itself.